the lost levels + steve jones: the early sheets.

Ok, I know I’m a sucker for anything 8-bit related, but I just died. And went to pseudo-Super Mario 2-D  heaven. At least that’s where it starts out, and then it just gets increasingly awesome from there. Be sure to watch it to the very, very end.

UK-based digital artist and animator Steve Jones (a.k.a. Eyebath) created this piece of radness for The Lost Levels’ track “The Early Sheets.” Jones only had this one vid up on his Radar profile. Please sir, can I have some more? I’m not sure why I just quoted “Oliver”, but I think it’s because Jones is British.

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matthew dominick: warp whistle.

Super Mario 3 is one of my favourite things of all time. It says so right on my About Page. Which is why I shit my pants when I saw this video. Too much retro geeky radness. Thank you Matthew Dominick. Thank you for being you… and for being a game head.

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ian dallas: the unfinished swan.

I’m a little freaked out right now because I’ve had nightmares about snow blindness and this very thing: waking up in a pure white world, without shadow or colour or visual dimension. In my nightmare I wake up and all I can see is white, a sort of polar blindness, and can’t discern where I am or what’s around me. Not white in a pure, pristine, blank slate type of way. Not white as light, but white as void. As an inescapable nothingness. It’s fucking terrifying.

“The Unfinished Swan” is a visually-stunning new first-person game, created by L.A.-based game designer Ian Dallas, that places you firmly inside this white world. Only by throwing black paint balls can you determine what’s around you, creating dimension from the splatter.

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The game is still in production and there aren’t any current plans to release it, but with some growing internet buzz there’s a chance that may change.

It’s when I found this following screenshot on Dallas’ website that I really shit my pants. How did he know? He’s like Freddy Kreuger. Ian Dallas – get out of my mind!

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